Fuel Follies

摘要

You're alone in your Lancair Evolution single-engine turboprop. You have just refueled at Chicago's Midway Airport and are headed to Denver, which your computer says is 788 nm away. The weather is good. The flight planning you've accomplished says it will take 3+15 and 121 gallons of the 170 available with the tanks filled. On startup, you reset your fuel totalizer to 170 gallons.